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FALSE CHINCH BUG ( Nysius ericas S chill.) 
R. L. Webster (June 15): Reports have come in from Adams and 
Mcintosh Counties to the effect that these false chinch bugs were 
destroying flax. I can find no records in the literature of such 
injury. Nymphs feed on Russian thistle in fields and may be affect- 
ing weeds more than the crop. 
GARDEN SLUG ( Agriolimax Columbian us Gld., Agriolimax agrestis L., 
and A. caj.x f or nicus Cooper) 
W. D. Pierce (May 31): Not only is the small garden slug bad here, 
but three huge woodland species at least are doing damage to gardens 
along creeks. These slugs reach 6 and 7 inches in length and eat 
all kinds of garden plants. 
SNAIL ( Helix aspersa Muller) 
W. Dwight Pierce (May 31): Much damage is being done on the Peninsula 
from San Bruno to Palo Alto by an imported snail, which was brought 
in by Frenchmen to eat. They are spreading rapidly and are very 
injurious. They are also at Oakland. 
FOWBUG ( Porcellio scaber Latr.) 
D. W. Pierce (May 31) : Sowbugs , mainly Porcellio scaber Latr., are 
very bad here, and in fact all around the Bay, and very destructive 
to young plants . 
AN APHID ( Myzus braggii Gillette) 
T. H« Jones (June 4): A correspondent wrote to the experiment 
station, complaining of injury by "little green lice" to globe 
artichoke. No specimens were sent* 
MILLIPEDS ( Diploiulus luscus) 
R. H, Pettit (May 28): A market gardener at Muskegon has a great 
deal of trouble with millipeds in muck. The millipeds were identified 
by Dr. Chamberlain at Washington as Diploiulus luscus . a ppecies 
introduced long ago from Europe. The gardener has four acres of 
muck infested with these millipeds. They do serious injury to 
lettuce and celery; cabbage seems to come through with little damage. 
SOUTHERN FIELD-CROP IN S*E<*C T S 
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BOLL WEEVIL ( Anthonomus grand is Boh.) 
North Carolina Franklin Sherman (June 8): Boll weevils have been reported from 
the following Counties: Moore, Harnett, Robeson, Scotland, Lenoir, 
Cumberland. Mecklenburg, Sampson (central part), and Cabarrus. At 
this date (June 7) it is evidently out in all our heavily infested 
